Tricky (★★★★✩), a very loud silence and other albums of the week

One of the legends of trip hop, British producer Adrian Thaws, breaks his recording silence as such after six years since Fall to Pieces (although it has been a period of time that he has invested in searching for different projects and even parallel identities, such as Lonely Guest or Theis Thaws). A wait that, as the cliché goes but which is reality, has been worth it, since the 14 tracks that give life to the brand new album invite you to enter inside. One of the pillars of British trip hop in his day – 31 years have passed since the appearance of the iconic and fundamental album Maxinquaye –, if something has always characterized the work of the Bristol producer, it is his ease in changing styles and genres without causing cataclysms.

And, without a doubt, in this Different when it’s silent those characteristics that framed Tricky’s sound reappear, that is, from the challenging to the melancholic and the melodic, from the full of nuances and textures to the raw, through the shot of joy or the provocateur of pain. Along with this honeycomb of rich music, the voice of Mitch Sanders stands out especially, a basic pillar, since his falsetto voice not only fills the songs, but easily moves the listener as in Because I don’t knowwhile in the splendid I’m yours the tone swims in a sea of ​​cutting guitars. An arc that closes with punk Out of placethis time with Tricky himself and his regular collaborator Marta Złakowska.

The singer from Barranquilla takes another step in her reworking of Caribbean sounds, interweaving African-American tradition with a pop pulse that has always avoided the mainstream. And on this occasion and as a tribute, in the title of the volume she adds the name of the Irish singer Enya, whom she considers a faithful reference to her extra-musical line. The Colombian-Canadian is on this occasion especially critical of Caribbean stereotypes, claiming her national and cultural-musical identity, and criticizing colonialism and racism. The brilliant one-on-one with Nelly Furtado stands out in the addictive cumbia today for you.

One of the most unique recent projects is the double album made by the macro band Companyia Les Solidàries in close pairing with the musician Guillem Caballero and the writer Tuli Márquez, and where they put the person of the anarchist Buenaventura Durruti into perspective, in a punk, surf rock, pop or Kurt Weill key… in their own way.

Pau Riba’s son puts music and feeling to half a dozen poems by his great-grandmother Clementina Arderiu. A tribute and at the same time a reminder of an author and a raw material of indisputable first order, which Caïm has built in close complicity with the clarinetist Teresa Nogueron from a sound perspective of the present.

This implies a splendid coverage of a varied stylistic range since it proposes the rock pulse in In the green shadow or Brazilian aromas in The name. They also recover the voice of Arderiu – who died half a century ago – in The ulls and New lyrics to the number of ocells.